Why the Bible commands attachment parenting

Many parents in America believe that punishing and controlling a child "reaps results", and most American parents still endorse punitive parenting. However, the Bible commands attachment parenting as the biblical means of parenting.

Every single parent and adult is guilty in relation to children, and is deserving of DEATH and DESTRUCTION merely for existing in relation to children as adults, with parents/adults being meek and shamefaced in relation to children. Parents especially are to put their children first, and themselves last, to the point of submission to children and their every vulnerable need, expecting absolutely nothing in return from parents or others for their toil and hardship, with children resting safely and securely in the love and grace of parents. See Colossians 3:20-21 KJV:

Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord. Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

The Greek root word translated "obey" is υπακουο (Latin: hupakouo) and refers to secure, vulnerable rest in the love and grace of parents. Attachment parenting was the norm in biblical times. Think a mother holding pales of water, donning head-garb, with a young child wrapped up next to her bosom in swaddling blankets, and an older child, in the nude, with her being in tow next to her mother. Fathers stood close by, and casually befriended their children in a passive manner. Children rested in a manner that empowered them to demand their needs and a redress of grievances. Parents were a safe place to express any and every emotion, including upset and frustration.

The Greek root word translated "provoke...to anger" is ερεθιζο (Latin: erethizo) and refers to damages. This means the slightest of personal offense perceived by the child, including the slightest of offensive touch or contact. This commandment was intended by the Apostle Paul to lift up the Law on punitive parenting. Punishing one's child in both ancient Israel and the Early Church was seen as a serious criminal offense punishable in the Old Testament by death by bloodletting - parents were hung like poultry. The seven verses in the book of Proverbs that mention the rod of correction are repealed verses, meaning they only are relevant to the legal context of the time, which was heavily linked to the death penalty under the original Law. Only ADULT children got whipped, and punishing children was in fact a reason for a grandfather to step in and whip the father of his grandchildren into shape. Whipping was standard punishment for all offenses, regardless of the age of the offender. Solomon was simply menacing young adults - meaning NOT children - about the consequences of crime and delinquency. Minor children never were punished for anything, as they were assumed to be unable to form the level of entitlement necessary to further an offense. This context applies today 100%.

Attachment parenting in biblical times was very primitive, meaning heavily reliant on breastfeeding and skin-to-skin contact from mothers. Mothers were there to provide nourishment and sustenance for children, and to guard their children, especially daughters, from predators and perverts, including within the family home. Fathers oftentimes had connotational sexual attraction to children, much like "sun tan" spray onto the skin of children, who went nude until adulthood to show their vulnerability, as well as to bring out any sexual threats in adults, for all to judge. Usually, fathers looked politely, and otherwise simply related to children at their level, in a friendly, passive way, in pro-social ragdoll fashion. Mothers could issue lawful and binding orders in the form of a bill of divorcement in the Early Church if ANY of her children were abused in any way, including sexually. Usually, apart from the off-hand objectifying remark from some fathers, sexual abuse was pretty much non-existent compared to today. Fathers simply internalized the wrongfulness of sexual abuse, and took their desires elsewhere, where the child couldn't see.

Older children in particular were given immense freedom to play freely. Most of the games, however, carried sexual undertones. One particular form of high-risk play was the game "marriage" where children were allowed to even mimic consummation of a marriage as long as it wasn't the real thing, and usually, children didn't do the real thing because they were too immature to bring themselves to, so they just embraced. Parents then were not afraid of children being exposed to serious topics, and then replicating them. Much of this context can be applied today, in the way a parent feels comfortable. Some of it can't be applied, but most of it is applicable, at least with some tweaking.

Children played freely as older children, but afterwards, they clung close to parents, never leaving their sight even when playing, then snuggling with parents while co-sleeping by night. Co-sleeping and co-mingling were dominant threads in biblical parenting then, and co-sleeping was the bread and butter of Early Christian parenting as well as that of their Jewish predecessors.

The depraved and entitled parents will not inherit the Kingdom of God! Let them burn in the lake of fire and burning sulfur, which is the second death prepared for Satan and his accomplices! Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!